The first ever PDGA event at Meeks Park in Blairsville, GA. This is a 1 day "C" tier. Matthew Mashburn and I will be running the tourney. Matthew should have a flyer ready no later than next week. I know that the Pros and Advanced will be playing the long tees both rounds. The Advanced age protected on down will probably be playing 1 round from each tee. This course has been getting great reviews. Come and see what the fuss is all about. Give us a week and you should know all the details. Just wanted to let those of you know so you can keep the date open. I will have flyers at the Toccoa Ice Bowl and at the Crucible in February. See you all soon - John

D-Wiz is psyched about the tourney. Next year it will be his baby to care for. I agree with you about the course, it sure plays tougher than you'd think. I played it this past weekend and shot a -8 on the short. My best on the long course is still +1. It will be interesting to see what kind of scores the better Pros will put up. See you soon - John

If you missed Earlewood or The Crucible come to Meeks and play for the Meeks Madness Final Four Trophy. After the scores come in, the top 4 scores of those who participated on the long courses for both rounds, basically any Pro or Open advanced will get a shot at the final four trophy.
It will be best score on a safari course. 4 holes only. If a tie occurs there will be a tie breaker. We should get a players list up later in the week.
Get in on this one before it fills up. See you all soon - John

You are Welcome Mr. Wiz and I thank you, and Mr. Nisewonder, for your work on this event.

BTW - I had pie during the Eclipse. Man I love Eclipses and I love pie. Hmmm pie.

I am also going to love my super cool Meeks Madness Star Ontario Roc which I will probably show off while I wear my super cool Meeks Madness one of a kind T-Shirt that I will have because I sent my cash in by the 2/29/08 deadline. How is that for a reminder

The Hula Hoop became so ubiquitous that the former Soviet Union banned the toy as a symbol of the "emptiness of American culture."

Vern has his game face on! Watch out... Thanks for the friendly reminder. Snail mail can get you, so be sure to get those entries in today!

Please come out and show Union County how many d-golfers play in this State. The commissioner put the course in because he saw a course at another park. D-golf hasn't caught on up here, but Union County is still extremely supportive of it and provides course improvements all the time. Don't be sorry you missed this one...I mean, it's a John Nisewonder tourney!

Let's get a good showing. We want to continue and grow this tournament!

Meeks Park received some play this weekend with two noteable events. John Nisewonder tied the known course record at -1. Matthew Mashburn aka D-Wiz had his first ever ace on #16 back tee pad. Come to the mountians and play Meeks Madness!

Meeks measures 6,030 from the back tees and 4,187 from the short. The shortest hole from the back tees is 180 and the longest is 733. There are some open holes on the front but every hole, even the open holes, have a tree or two. Be thankful the leaves are not out....

D-Wiz wrote:Redan Randy, glad you're heading North for your 1st ATLANTA OPEN. Keep driving and we will see you in March.

5 more entries today...

Nice segue! It would be tough with Earlewood this weekend(WOOHOO!). You never know though, your course sounds tasty! I see Bagger Dammes and his bro wonder are playing Advanced Masters, maybe i will pass in protest!!

Star Ontario Rocs, DX Destroyers and DX Aviars with Tournament stamp are in and look great! Plenty of CTP's, short and long sleeved Innova t-shirts, the new ROC t-shirts, and plenty of other goodies available.

Snow today, spring tomorrow? Who can predict the weather? Not me, but I can tell you this is going to be a doozy of a first tourney. Yes, I said doozy!

Got my Roc. Nice colors. There's still time to get in the tourney that everyone will be talking about on the next day. If you miss out it will be another year before it comes around. How many chances do you get to play in a courses inaugural PDGA event. Lots of CTP's and merchandise. The Final Four trophy is sweet. See you all soon - John

We are at 45 pre-registered with 10-12 folks whose money is on the way or they plan to sign up the day of. Anything mailed tomorrow should get to me by Friday, but people can register Saturday. The t-shirt order has been placed and we don't plan to have many extras.

No predictions from the rookie assistant as to if we will reach 90....

I'd be out there but Ritger and I have a class on saturday (park pride/ janitor qualification for Perkerson Park).... thanks for the Roc you sold me.... I removed the stamp , then custom dyed a hand grenade on it I would post a pic, but I don't know how

Watch the tourney update later today. I know that Matthew has received a few more names. Some of the Easley and Greenville crew. The weather is looking to be in the mid 40's. See you all on Saturday - John

Hopefully the weather will clear out early Saturday morning, but it's still gonna be cold. There are 9 other PDGA events going on this weekend in states north of us.So, bundle up, it could be worse. Matthew has done a great job in getting some added cash for the event. We are talking about moving next year to June or July.See you all tomorrow - John

Good thing Clunck wasn't there.(Now Matthew won't forever be judged by how fast he gets the scores up.)

Meeks is truly the newest gem we are so privileged to have in North Georgia; no less, in the southeast. With all kinds of challenges on a beautiful piece of property, this could become a favorite for many. There's champion level potential there.

Fun tournament. Thanks for all of the hard work John and D-Wiz. Also thanks to all the guys that put this course in, it's awesome. Congrats on the ace Kat. The snow was great too. Who was the fool out there in shorts all day. He must be all man.

D-Wiz, scores? We aren't going to allow you or the six other dwarfs to run another tournament if you can't get the scores up in a timely fashion. I can't wait to see my 700 rated 68 and 1000+ rated 54.

I want to say a big THANK YOU to Barry and Brett for helping out with all the numbers between and at the end of the rounds. It sure took a load off of my mind. Sorry that the awards ceremony wasn't what it should have been, but we had a lot of cold people wanting to go home. Thanks for showing up. I believe we had 65 players. We are looking into making this a June event. Until Matthew gets the scores posted here's a little recap.
Phil Arthur won the Open Pro, while Jake Nye took home the final 4 trophy. Brett Porter took the Advanced. Fred Williams won the Adv. Masters. Clay Martin- Int. Randy Beavers a local boy took the Rec division. While another local ,Chuck Somer won the Novice. Woody Blackwell took the Pro Masters in a playoff. Jay Phillips set the tourney record with a second round 54, that is a -1. Take care and we'll see you all soon - John

First, I would like to say "thanks" to all 66 players (10 extra signed up the day of) that played in some rough conditions in support of our first tournament. The Union County Rec. Dept. couldn't believe how many people showed up to play in those conditions, so THANKS for playing!!!

A lot of people helped in many ways. First off, thanks to John for helping design the course, directing the tournament, and for teaching me many things. He has set us up for future tournaments and I couldn't have asked for a better person to learn from. THANKS to JOHN!

Also, we had about 7 first time tourney players and 6 states represented. (TN, SC, Oregon, NC, SC, and GA) Thanks to Vern Williams for helping get the word out to the TN players and for donating CTPs. Thanks for a good Athens showing.

Thanks to Jim Simpson for playing, covering the tournament, and for writing the newspaper article for the local paper.

Thanks to all people that helped with scoring, especially Brett Porter and Mr. Barry Arnson.
Thanks to all people that donated CTPs along with Vern...Fred Williams, Lee Minehart, Justin Romito, Innova (donated 18 DX second round) and the others I didn't know about...

OK, I could keep going, so I'll stop. Basically, I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off and a lot of people stepped up and helped! I'm carefully looking at everything from this weekend and slowly learning many new things so that the next Meeks Tournament will be even better. So hold tight...you probably won't see scores until Wednesday.... Unless you were first place, get out and practice, stop analyzing your ratings, and get off this message board...the weather is nice and you have more daylight.

Thanks for letting me help! If any of you have any concerns, please let me know by PM.